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Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis in the Civil War Era
by Kenneth Noe
Product Group: Book
Publisher: University Alabama Press (2003-09-02)
ISBN: 0817350640
EAN: 9780817350642
Dewy Decimal #: 385.09755709034
Paperback: 232 pages
Condition: New
Comments: Paperback, Book is in Unused Condition. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Excellent condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc.)
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Product Description
This book examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s, before the Civil War began. The building and operation of the railroad reoriented the economy of the region toward staple crops and slave labor. Thus, during the secession crisis, southwest Virginia broke with northwestern Virginia and embraced the Confederacy. Ironically, however, it was the railroad that brought waves of Union raiders to the area during the war.
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